On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:14:35PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On 20010225T024613+0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > According to Policy Section 2.4.2. Package relationships
> > Build-Depends only SHOULD be defined, Section 7 says the MAY
> > be defined.
> This section was written before the new SHOULD/MUST/MAY guidelines.
> The intention was that they MUST be defined and that the lines in control
> file SHOULD be omitted if they are empty.
When the MUST/SHOULD/MAY stuff was proposed, all the stuff in policy
was gone through and adjusted to have the correct meaning under the
new interpretation.
Cheers,
aj
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